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Status and Health in Roman Dorset: the Effect of Status on Risk of Mortality in Post-Conquest Populations Rebecca C AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 146:197–208 (2011) Status and Health in Roman Dorset: The Effect of Status on Risk of Mortality in Post-Conquest Populations Rebecca C. Redfern1 and Sharon N. DeWitte2* 1Department of Archaeological Collections and Archive, Centre for Human Bioarchaeology, Museum of London, London EC2Y 5HN, UK 2Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 KEY WORDS Roman Britain; mortality; sex differences ABSTRACT The Roman conquest of Britain was pre- Gompertz–Makeham models of mortality. The results of viously shown to have negatively impacted health, par- these analyses indicate that high-status individuals, par- ticularly for children, older adults, and men. We build ticularly children, had a lower mortality risk compared upon this previous research by investigating the effect to lower-status groups; and for those buried in urban that status had on risks of mortality within the Roman cemeteries, higher-status individuals of all age-groups Britain populations of Dorset. This study incorporates a had a lower mortality risk. As with our previous study sample of 291 individuals excavated from several ceme- (Redfern and DeWitte: Am J Phys Anthropol 144 (2011) teries in the county of Dorset dating between the first to 269–285), we found that male mortality risk was higher early fifth centuries AD. To assess the effect of status on than females, which we consider to reflect underlying risks of mortality, burial type was used as a proxy for sex-differences in immunity and disease response. Am J status and modeled as a covariate affecting the Siler and Phys Anthropol 146:197–208, 2011. VC 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc. The Roman conquest of Britain by the Emperor Clau- in the ancient world, as evidenced in medical texts (e.g., dius in 43 AD resulted in considerable changes to the Hippocrates—airs, waters, and places). Society and cul- landscape, economy, and indigenous culture and incorpo- ture can influence a person’s health, because they per- rated Britain into an Empire, which at the height of its meate and often determine the entire life course (Rou- powers (third century BC to fifth century AD), united sham and Humphrey, 2002). People who are disadvan- communities in the Arab World, North Africa, and taged socially and economically have a higher risk of Europe (Wells, 1992). This process is known as ‘‘Romani- developing a serious illness and have a shorter life ex- zation,’’ a term which has recently undergone significant pectancy (Nettle, 2010). The disadvantaged have higher changes to move away from its imperialist and colonial morbidity and mortality risk because of the cumulative past (e.g., Hingley, 2005; Gosden, 2006) and, instead, is effects of inadequate diet and poor living conditions. It is now used as ‘‘a convenient denomination covering the now well established that health status during childhood events involved in the creation of Roman [Britain], with directly affects an individual’s long-term health out- no cultural implications taken for granted’’ (Terrenato, comes, such as the development of metabolic and infec- 1998: 20). Work by the authors (Redfern and DeWitte, tious diseases because of living conditions and poor diet 2011) has demonstrated that this process had significant (McElroy and Townsend, 1996; Wilkinson and Marmot, biological repercussions, because it negatively impacted 2003). health in all age-groups and both sexes, particularly for To further investigate the results of our previous subadults and adult males. This finding was unexpected, study, we used the Siler and Gompertz–Makeham mod- as the Roman world was male orientated (Garnsey, 1968; els of mortality to investigate the relationship between Rawson, 1986b; Wiedemann, 1989). Our research sug- age, sex, and status by testing the hypothesis that gests that underlying biological differences between the higher status, as evidenced by the type of coffin used for sexes allowed females to better buffer risk, probably burial, was associated with lower mortality risk in through immunological advantages, despite them being Roman Britain. By examining how risk of mortality perceived as having a lower status than males in this pe- riod (Stinson, 1985; Flemming, 2000; Langley, 2003). We believe that these risks were created by the introduction Grant sponsors: University of Birmingham and Dorset Natural of urban settlements and increased population migration History and Archaeological Society, University at Albany Center for and the adoption of ‘‘Romanized’’ life-styles, particularly Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA), and the University at Albany Research Foundation. how children were cared for [see also Gowland and Red- fern (2010)]. The research presented here expands upon *Correspondence to: Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology, University at our previous findings by focusing on the relationship Albany, AS 237, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. between social status, age, and sex, as these factors were E-mail: [email protected] highly influential in the Roman world (Harlow and Lau- rence, 2002). Received 2 December 2010; accepted 27 April 2011 The important relationship between health and social status has been explored by numerous bioarchaeological DOI 10.1002/ajpa.21563 studies at the population scale of analysis (e.g., Steckel Published online 8 August 2011 in Wiley Online Library and Rose, 2002; Cardoso, 2007) and was also recognized (wileyonlinelibrary.com). VC 2011 WILEY-LISS, INC. 198 R.C. REDFERN AND S.N. DEWITTE varied with social status, we hope to reveal a factor that servicing a public fountain and a forum. Excavations contributed to heretofore ‘‘hidden’’ heterogeneity in have revealed evidence for industrial activities, such as frailty (Vaupel and Yashin, 1985; Wood et al., 1992) in metal working, and it is suggested that the environs the population of Roman Britain. were managed (Woodward et al., 1993). Outside the town, the extent to which settlements were ‘‘Romanized’’ did not depend on their distance to the principle center, SOCIAL STATUS IN THE ROMAN WORLD but, instead, it was more complex, involving a broad An individual’s status in the Roman world was negoti- range of variables (Putnam, 2007). For example, in rural ated according to their biological sex, age, and socioeco- areas, villa settlements were the epitome of Roman liv- nomic status. During this period, Roman society viewed ing as they were high-status settlements that incorpo- the adult male body as the ideal physiology, above those rated luxury styles of living (Putnam, 2007). Other rural of women and children who were regarded as being settlements were more comparable to their preceding incomplete and, therefore, of less value (Foxhall and late Iron Age counterparts, consisting of wattle and daub Salmon, 1998; Flemming, 2000). The emphasis on adult- roundhouses (Hingley, 1989). hood is crucial, as children were seen as incomplete beings that were transformed through the life course SOCIAL AND FUNERARY STATUS IN THE ROMAN into adult beings by various social and religious rituals PERIOD (Rawson, 1986b, 1991). These social notions were rein- forced by legal proscriptions, which dictated ages of In archaeology, an individual’s status and identity are responsibility in terms of property ownership and voting most frequently investigated using available funerary evi- rights (Garnsey, 1968; Harlow and Laurence, 2002). dence (e.g., Buzon and Judd, 2008). Hope’s (2009) review Recent research taking a gender or life course approach of Roman death shows that the relationship between has demonstrated that these social proscriptions were social and funerary statuses can be reliably established, subject to regional and temporal variation within the and we are fortunate to have a wide range of evidence Empire, reflecting local traditions, and show that a uni- relating to funerals and cemeteries from the Roman pe- form way of life did not exist (Gowland and Redfern, riod (Toynbee, 1996). Written evidence, including prices 2010; Revell, 2005; Carroll, 2006). Within the Empire, a and amounts to be set aside for burial, can provide impor- wide variety of status groups existed from slaves to rul- tant information about status and burial practice ing elites, and it was possible over an individual’s life (Toynbee, 1996). However, these sources are not without course to move between groups because of factors such bias in terms of geographic and temporal distribution in as forced slavery and manumission, marriage, and the Empire, and we should question how representative migration (Adkins and Adkins, 1998). they are of the community from which they derive, as we In Roman Britain, a range of status groups has been do not know whether complex high-status funerals identified using a wide range of archaeological evidence, described in texts from Rome occurred elsewhere in the including funerary and epigraphic data. At the most fun- Empire (Hope, 2009). Evidence from legal texts shows damental level, the greatest distinction was between the that people often bought land in the suburbs and built enslaved and the free. Slaves lived in both urban and ru- tombs during their lifetime; funeral clubs were also popu- ral settlements, and these individuals could have been lar in the Empire and were joined by slaves, freedmen, transported from all areas of the Empire and also from and the less prosperous to ensure that their bodies were marginal territories (Scheidel, 1997; Joshel, 2010). Other buried. The lowest status and cheapest burials just placed social and status groups in Britain included the military, the body in the ground, while more expensive coffins merchants and traders, skilled craftspeople, unskilled were made of wood, terracotta, stone, and lead (Toynbee, and agricultural workers, and government officials 1996; Hope, 2009). However, variations within each type (Birley, 1964, 1979). The population of Roman Britain existed, and, as Esmonde Cleary (1987) highlights, a has been shown by stable isotope and ancestry studies to stone coffin at source may have cost as much as a quality be very diverse, with people from the Mediterranean, wooden one elsewhere.
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